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 Frankmusik performing atLovebox Festival inLondon on 18 July 2009 | |
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| Born | Vincent James Turner (1985-10-09)9 October 1985 (age 40) Thornton Heath,London, England |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
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| Website | www |
Vincent James Turner (born 9 October 1985), better known by hisstage nameFrankmusik (/fræŋkˈmjuːzɪk/frank-MYOO-zik[1]) (and between 2011 and 2012, by the nameVincent Did It), is an Englishsynth-pop musician.[2] Since 2010 he is based in Los Angeles as remixer and producer.
Vincent James Turner was born on 9 October 1985 in theThornton Heath district of theLondon Borough of Croydon.[3] He attendedChrist's Hospital boarding school in West Sussex and was a member of the house 'Maine A'. He entertained his housemates with constant piano playing.[4] He completed a year-longfoundation course atCentral Saint Martins College of Art and Design[5][6] and went on to study at theLondon College of Fashion, dropping out to concentrate on music.[2][7]
During 2004, Turner performed as abeatboxer, under the name Mr Mouth.[8]
Turner released his debut EP,Frankisum, in 2007. Former school friend and then assistant of A&R atIsland Records, Ben Scarr, introduced Island colleague Louis Bloom to Frankmusik'sMySpace page, which was getting a significant number of hits at the time.[9] Although already known for high energy electro and happy hardcore, Frankmusik's signing to Island was in part because Bloom recognised a pop star performer beneath the electronic music, tellingHitQuarters: "Underneath all the madness there was some great hooks and melodies, and buried even deeper was a voice; it took a lot of time after signing for him to have the confidence to sing without putting loads of effects over his vocal."[9]
In June 2008, Frankmusik remixed the second single byThe Clik Clik "Did You Wrong", which appeared on the B-side of the 7" single release.
In December 2008, Frankmusik made it on to the long-list of theBBC'sSound of 2009 poll.[10][11] In the UK,Gaydar Radio was the first national station to champion Frankmusik and tracks from his debut album,Complete Me. Initially interviewed by Alex Baker as part of the station's coverage of National Student Pride, Frankmusik performed a number of live tracks, which were then playlisted as part of an album teaser.[12] His rise to fame was also followed closely by his local radio station,107.8 Radio Jackie, which was the first station to broadcast his music.
In January and February 2009, he was the support act forKeane on theirPerfect Symmetry tour in the UK.[13] In March 2009, he headlined National Student Pride in Brighton's seafront club Digital withJodie Harsh andDan Gillespie Sells (The Feeling). In June 2009, Frankmusik was the support act for thePet Shop Boys in London, Manchester and Liverpool. He did a short tour to launch the albumComplete Me, starting in Brighton on 17 July and taking in London, Glasgow, and Manchester.
Complete Me debuted on theUK Albums Chart at No. 13 in August 2009,[14] after its second single, "Confusion Girl", was A-listed byBBC Radio 1[15] and reached No. 27 on theUK Singles Chart. The other singles were "Better Off as Two", which peaked at No. 26, and "3 Little Words".
In August 2009, a more extensive UK tour was announced to take place during November and December that year.[16] Just two days later on 20 August 2009, it was announced that Frankmusik would join the Perez Hilton Presents tour in Autumn 2009.[17] Frankmusik was part of a line-up atThe O2 Arena 3D ELEKTRO RAVE alongsideCaspa andRusko,Tinchy Stryder,High Contrast, and Dancing Robot Music.[18]
During recording and promotion of his debut album, Frankmusik remixed material by other artists, including the Pet Shop Boys' "Love etc.",[19]Lady Gaga's "Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)",[20]Alphabeat's "Fascination"[21] and "10,000 Nights",[22]Mika's "Relax, Take It Easy"[23] andCSS's "Move",[24] and has covered "Rehab" byAmy Winehouse[25] andThe Postal Service's "Such Great Heights".[26] Frankmusik also co-produced "First Place" onTinchy Stryder's 2009 album,Catch 22, and "Wish I Stayed" onEllie Goulding'sLights (2010).
In early 2010, Turner decided to move from London to Los Angeles as his own producer. He had more time, more space and it was cheaper than doing it in London.[27]
He featured on aFar East Movement track called "Fighting for Air", from their albumFree Wired; he also appeared in Far East Movement's music video for "Rocketeer" withColette Carr andMohombi. The same year he collaborated withComputer Club on a track called "Losing Streak".[28]
It was announced in February 2011 that he had begun work producing the newErasure album in Maine. EntitledTomorrow's World, this was released on 3 October 2011 in the UK, and 4 October 2011 in the US. During October and November 2011, Frankmusik was the supporting act on the Erasure tour across the US and Europe.[citation needed]
In an April 2011 interview, his A&R Louis Bloom said that Frankmusik was at work on his upcoming album. According to Bloom: "The challenge has been for him to simplify the structure of his songwriting whilst still encouraging him into taking risks on the production duties."[9] The album,Do It in the AM, was released in September 2011 and peaked at No. 178 on the UK Albums Chart.[citation needed]
On 19 October 2011, Frankmusik announced via his officialTwitter page that he had parted ways with his UK label, Island Records.[29]
In an interview with music blog Flop of the Pops on 3 January 2012, Frankmusik announced that he would change his stage name to Vincent Did It, along with the exclusive premiere of a song titled "Dynamo", part of theSOPA Opera EP.[30][31]
On 10 March 2012, Turner announced on his Twitter page that he had decided once again to go by his former stage name, Frankmusik.[32] He then released two new acoustic demos titled "I'll Know" and "This Is Who I Am" on his officialSoundCloud account for Frankmusik.[33] Throughout 2012 Turner released thirteen demos online.
On 31 October 2012, Turner released a single titled "Fast as I Can". The song was released independently through the digital distribution companyTunecore for international release. The song was originally meant to be the lead single off of his then-titled album,You Are Here. Turner announced a track listing for the album and set a release date for 2013. The album was soon later scrapped, Turner claiming that he wanted to start fresh and not with "songs [he] wrote six months ago". On 14 February, Turner released his sixth EP, titled,Far From Over. The EP consisted of four songs and was released for free through his website. The EP was not available for purchase, instead it was free but fans were asked to donate toJustGiving what they thought the EP was worth.
Shortly after the EP's release, Turner announced that his third studio album,Between, would be released on 1 April 2013. In March 2013, Turner announced that the album would no longer be released in April, along with revealing the cover art. The album's lead single "Chasing Shadows" was released on 9 May 2013 along with its video. On 11 May 2013, Turner announced thatBetween would be released on 7 June 2013.
On 10 September 2013, Turner released a full acoustic album calledBetween Us featuring 10 songs fromBetween as well as a new song called "Hymn" to coincide withBetween.
On 13 December 2013, Turner released a single, "Ephemeral Summer", on iTunes and its video two days later. In January 2014, Turner announced he was working on his new album, titledBy Nicole, and announced its lead single, "Dear Nicole". The song was released through Turner's YouTube account on 14 February 2014.
In February 2014, to coincide with the launch of season six ofRuPaul's Drag Race,RuPaul released his sixth studio album,Born Naked, including the track "Fly Tonight" featuring Frankmusik.
On 1 April 2014, the album's third overall single, "These Streets", was released accompanying its music video through Turner's YouTube account and was made available the following day on the iTunes store. Turner announced through his YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages on 18 April that the album would be released on 28 April 2014.
The singer's fifth album was confirmed on 9 March 2015 via Twitter,[34]Not Right Now. The first single, "This", was released on 4 May 2015.
On 13 August 2015, Turner announced a new album title "For You",[35] along with the track listing and a release date for October 2015.
Frankmusik provided guest vocals for RuPaul's 2015 albumRealness on the song "Die Tomorrow".[citation needed] This makes the second consecutive appearance of Frankmusik on a RuPaul album.
On 21 July 2016,Day Break was released as an eight track EP (Digital + Physical). A limited run of 500 copies were made and the first 100 were numbered and signed by Frankmusik.
Night Shift EP followed in July 2017 including seven remixes and the instrumental songs ofDay Break.
During this year, Turner started to write short synth instrumental pieces forAnya Hindmarch Fashion Shows in London.[36] Referred to the names of the collection seasons SS16, AW16, SS17, AW17, SS18..., his collaboration with her is still going on.
SS17 is a six track EP that was released digitally on 17 June 2017.
AW17 is an eight track EP and followed later in the autumn of 2017. Instrumentals were released together for both in 2018 as an EP.
In May 2020, Turner produced an instrumental dance/funk album under the new name ofStephanie Clothing. The album contains nine tracks, each one illustrated by one colourful theme. The album is called2020 Vision and was available in physical and digital copies.[37]
Starting January 2021, Turner was involved in a project releasing a new digital single on the last day of every month. A new album consisting of all the singles would be released at the end of the year. On 8 November, Turner surprised his fans by releasing the physical studio album titledCarissimi, two months before the end of the monthly releases. On 31 December, Turner released another single "Next" and the album instrumentals.
Also in 2021, Turner collaborated with Kaushik Velendra for the SS22 and AW22 LFW Fashion Collections by writing short instrumental pieces.[38]
Turner made reworks from scratch of his first albumComplete Me that were not under his own label, releasing them on the last day of each month. The first track in the album release was "In Step". It includes two new remastered songs. The album was released at the end of the year with physical and digital releases. The album is calledCompleted. In parallel, two of his previous works were published at the end of 2022. An EP included the songs of the Anya Hindmarch Fashion Shows through the years 2016, 2017 and 2018.[39] In addition, some old demos he made for the background music for a now defunct website calledThe Heaths of Thornton. He said "The EP was comprised of a random selection of tracks made after I just left high school and after dropping out of college (LCF). Some tracks were very rough. While others were modified professional demos to fit the vibe of the piece of music. For this release I decided to go in and create the correct splice points for each track in the mix and make it a more consumable piece of work instead of releasing it as a non stop 45 track. Although the last track is in fact the continuous work unedited."[40]
For London Fashion Week in February 2023, Turner returned to instrumental music production for fashion designer Kaushik Velendra's Collections AW23.[41][42]
In July 2023, Turner ended the project with the final song "Crazy Love" to focus on family and personal projects. The 12 song album namedNobody was printed as an orange CD in November 2023. Only 100 copies were available.[43] However the song "I'm Frozen" (featuring Goodbye The Hundred and Berenice Scott) was not included in the physical release.[44]
Frankmusik citesDaft Punk,Erasure,Electric Light Orchestra,Razorlight,Hard-fi,Pet Shop Boys,Late Of The Pier,Oasis andKilla Kela as influences.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
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| UK [47] | IRE [48] | ||
| Complete Me |
| 13 | 88 |
| Do It in the AM |
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| Between |
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| By Nicole |
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| For You[34] |
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| Carissimi |
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| Completed |
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| Nobody |
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| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album | |
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| UK [47] | IRE | |||
| 2008 | "3 Little Words" | — | — | Complete Me |
| "In Step / Done Done" | — | — | ||
| 2009 | "Better Off as Two" | 26 | — | |
| "Confusion Girl" | 27 | — | ||
| "Time will tell" | 173 | — | ||
| 2010 | "The Fear Inside" | — | — | Do it in the AM |
| 2011 | "Do It in the AM" (featuringFar East Movement) | — | — | |
| "No I.D." (featuringColette Carr) | — | — | ||
| 2012 | "Fast As I Can" | — | — | Between |
| 2013 | "Map" | — | — | |
| "Chasing Shadows" | — | — | ||
| "Ephemeral Summer" | — | — | By Nicole | |
| 2014 | "Dear Nicole" | — | — | |
| "These Streets" | — | — | ||
| 2015 | "This" | — | — | For You |
| "I Remember" | — | — | ||
| "Awake" | — | — | ||
| 2016 | "Turnin'" | — | — | |
| "Day Break" | — | — | Day Break | |
| "Closer" | — | — | ||
| "High on You" (featuring Lindsay Lowend) | — | — | ||
| 2017 | "Going Under" | — | — | SS17 |
| "WYG" | — | — | ||
| 2021 | "Waiting" | — | — | Song of Luobin Wang[49] |
| "In a Faraway Region" | — | — | ||
| "The Half Moon Came Up In The Sky" | — | — | ||
| 2024 | "Grace" | — | — | TBA |
| "Parking Lots" | — | — | ||
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Album |
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| 2009 | "I Got Soul"(withThe Young Soul Rebels) | 10 | Charity single |
| 2017 | "Wildfire"(with French Braids) | – | |
| "So Damn Beautiful"(with FrankJavCee (Frankmusik version))[50] | – | ||
| 2018 | "Near or far"(with 813 & Crispy Flakes) | – | |
| 2019 | "Calling"(with Kalax) | – | |
| 2020 | "Desire"(with Louis Laroche) | – | Saturday Night Griever |
| "Always"(with Louis Laroche) | – |
| Title | Year | Artist(s) | Album | Credits | Written with | Produced with |
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| "First Place" | 2009 | Tinchy Stryder | Catch 22 |
| Kwasi Danquah III | — |
| "Wish I Stayed" | 2010 | Ellie Goulding | Lights | Producer | — | — |
| "(We Do It) Primo" | 2011 | Colette Carr | Skitszo |
| Colette Carr | — |
| "When I Start To (Break It All Down)" | Erasure | Tomorrow's World | Producer | — | — | |
| "Be with You" | — | — | ||||
| "Fill Us with Fire" | — | — | ||||
| "What Will I Say When You're Gone?" | — | — | ||||
| "You Got to Save Me Right Now" | — | — | ||||
| "A Whole Lotta Love Run Riot" | — | — | ||||
| "I Lose Myself" | — | — | ||||
| "Then I Go Twisting" | — | — | ||||
| "Just When I Thought It Was Ending" | — | — | ||||
| "Shot to the Heart" | — | — | ||||
| "F16" | 2012 | Colette Carr | Skitszo |
| Colette Carr | — |
| "Drive & Smoke" | SRH | City Switch EP | Producer | — | — | |
| "Dufferluv" | — | — | ||||
| "Got That" (featuringMike Posner) | — | — | ||||
| "Hometown Heroes" | — | — | ||||
| "I Tried" | — | — | ||||
| "Better Off" | — | — | ||||
| "Hometown Heroes (Remix)" (featuring muGz, David Hodges and Stefanie Parnell) | — | — | ||||
| "Complicated" | 2013 | Kentö | Non-album single |
| Kentö | — |
| "Memory Foam" | Ellie Rose | Memory Foam/Speed Bump | Ellie Rose | — | ||
| "Mask" | Ellie Rose | — | ||||
| "Killswitch" | Colette Carr | Skitszo | Colette Carr | — | ||
| "Hearsay" | Colette Carr | — | ||||
| "Delusional" | Colette Carr | — | ||||
| "Ready to Love" | Katrina | Non-album single | Katrina Abrahemian | — | ||
| "Midas Touch" | 2014 | Ashley Roberts | Butterfly Effect | Ashley Roberts | — | |
| "Wild Heart" | Ashley Roberts | — | ||||
| "Standing in the Rain" | Ashley Roberts | — | ||||
| "Double Trouble" | Ray Noir | Non-album single |
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| "Die Tomorrow" (featuring Frankmusik) | 2015 | RuPaul | Realness |
| RuPaul Charles | — |
| "I Ain't with You" | Secaina Hudson | Non-album single | Secaina Hudson | — | ||
| "Static" | Colette Carr | Static.Start. EP |
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| "Moments in Love" |
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| "Three Percent" |
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| "Walking in Place" |
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| "Tears Behind My Raybans" | Ryan Swayze | Far from Normal Vol. 2 | Producer | — | — | |
| "Play House" | 2016 | Colette Carr | Believe in Us |
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| "Honesty" | 2017 | John Galea | Missing Pages EP | Co-writer | John Galea | — |
| "Senses" | Colette Carr | Believe in Us |
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| "Believe in Us" |
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| "Satisfied" |
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| "Bury This Love" | — | |||||
| "Fun" | Colette Carr | — | ||||
| "看不見的城市 (Invisible Cities)" | 2018 | Tanya Chua | 看不见的城市 | Producer | 蔡健雅 | — |
| "40 Days" | 2019 | PJ Brennan | Pleasure | Producer | Patrick Brennan | — |
| "Remedy" | 2022 | Mitchell Bruce | Glitch | Producer | Mitchell Bruce | — |
| "Want From me" | Mitchell Bruce | — | ||||
| "Stay" | Mitchell Bruce | — | ||||
| "the Last Time" | Mitchell Bruce | — | ||||
| "Carry On" | Nikolas IV | TBA | Producer | Nikolas IV | — | |
| "Cut Me Out" | 2023 | Nikolas IV | TBA | Producer | Nikolas IV - Jesse Saint John | — |
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